caliphate
caliphate
Definition
ca·liph·ate (kā′lə fət, kal′ə fāt′)
noun
- the rank or reign of a caliph
- the land ruled by a caliph
caliphate
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- ali: Caliphate of ali 656 661 Bookmark this page No breathing space many problems.
Converse of object
- establish: All have been part of Mr. Basayev's declared goal to establish an Islamic caliphate, uniting the northern Caucasus in secession from Russia.
- claim: That opened the door for him to claim the Caliphate, opposing Yazid.
- restore: His aim of restoring an Islamic caliphate whose capital would be in Baghdad is in ideological conflict with present day Iraq.
- want: After pretending to not want the Caliphate, once the title was given, he clung to it with all his life's force.
- abolish: And this bourgeois-nationalist government of Turkey has found it necessary to abolish the caliphate.
Preposition: at
- beginning: Since the demise of the Caliphate at the beginning of this century, women have been receding from this important role.
Adjective modifier
- Islamic: His aim of restoring an Islamic caliphate whose capital would be in Baghdad is in ideological conflict with present day Iraq.
- Arab: McMahon's reply was somewhat non-committal save with respect to a restored Arab Caliphate.
- eternal: Nazis aimed for their Thousand-Year Reich, while Islamists aim for their eternal Caliphate.
- eastern: Turning now to the dependencies of the Empire, we note that Spain was during this reign finally detached from the eastern Caliphate.
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